AIG reviews

Sweatshop environment, work hours in the finance community is usually till midnight on quarter ends and 8 or 9 normally and weekend work including major holidays (so goodbye july 4th bbq). Extremely old fashion culture where usage of new technology was faced with much resistant (think printing calculator instead of MS Excel). This caused very slow production cycles and bottlenecks for everyone and those who were efficient now seemed they don't have enough work. Male dominated senior management where women managers seem to have to stay extra late and work extra hard to just get invited to the party, very unprofessional behavior can be seen coming from senior male management. Horrible review system, one is rated against others in the same pay grade but not necessary the same function. Managers who have never spoken or worked with you gets to vote if you are an above average performer, so if your manager is outspoken and willing to fight for you against other managers, you get a better rating and thus a merit award. However, will s/he willing to hurt a relationship with another manager?

Those that stuck it out through the hard times of 2008 were told that they would be rewarded for their loyalty. Instead, we are faced with forced ranking, jobs being shipped overseas and consultants. The latest trend is consolidation of regions into one (Chicago and Cleveland; Dallas and Houston; LA/ San Francisco etc.). The latest mission statement was to be closer to the customer, which is a contractraction. Many lost their jobs yesterday, and the consolidation of regions will cost many more jobs in addition to "WOW" which will shut down profit centers. Technology is a joke. I still use Windows 2003 as an operating system.